Need sleuthing help with song titles

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

Chevre,

I could use some help deciphering Sephardic song titles which appeared on 
the old Gramophone 78 label. The backstory: every turn of the century 
recording session was recorded in the company log book. Various 
discographic experts have gone back and transcribed these handwritten 
entries onto computer as best they can, but they often have NO knowledge of 
the underlying languages being transcribed. So if they get a few letters 
off, pretty soon "La Quetoubah de la Ley" morphs into "La Quetoubada 
labij"  or "Nishmat col hay" morphs into "Nich nat Colhany" (actual 
examples.) Until we find the recordings themselves (which is quite 
unlikely) these logbooks are the only information we have on these 
performances. So any help at all identifying the following titles would be 
very, very welcome.

Salonica
Itchichek havassi (havassi being a song type?) (This title is in Ladino)

Algiers

Reddich
Kericet Toran (the latter word obviously Torah)
Rebbi Traien Enkaana (Arabic?)
Ine Debari Hassalli (Arabic?)
Ilyahden Emmobi (Arabic?)
Mah'la Oussaulek (Arabic?)



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